Patents by Inventor Kei Suzuki

Kei Suzuki has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11987468
    Abstract: A medium processing apparatus includes a conveyor, a receptacle, a liquid applier, and a crimper. The conveyor conveys a medium. The receptacle holds the medium conveyed by the conveyor. The liquid applier is disposed upstream from the receptacle in a conveyance direction of the medium to apply liquid to a liquid application position on the medium conveyed by the conveyor. The crimper presses and deforms the liquid application position on a plurality of media including the medium held on the receptacle to bind the plurality of media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Junya Suzuki, Kei Sasaki, Kazuki Seto, Kotomi Kameyama
  • Publication number: 20240162060
    Abstract: A substrate treatment apparatus includes: a substrate treatment unit that treats a substrate with a treatment liquid containing ozone dissolved therein; a recovery tank in which the treatment liquid discharged from the substrate treatment unit is recovered; a recovery pipe that connects the substrate treatment unit to the recovery tank; a heating member that heats the treatment liquid to a first temperature in at least one of the recovery pipe and the recovery tank; a supply piping system that supplies the treatment liquid from the recovery tank to the substrate treatment unit; and an ozone gas pipe that supplies ozone gas to the supply piping system to mix the ozone gas in the treatment liquid passing through the supply piping system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Masaki INABA, Naoko ARIMA, Kei SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20240157390
    Abstract: In the substrate processing apparatus, a support tray supporting a substrate is housed in an internal space of a chamber. A processing fluid is supplied into the internal space from one end side of the internal space. The support tray includes a tray member and a plurality of support members attached to the tray member in such a manner as to surround a substrate facing surface. The tray member has a downstream-side standing portion that has a downstream-side standing portion that stands upward further than the substrate facing surface while located in proximity to a peripheral surface of the substrate on a downstream side supported by the plurality of support members. An upper surface of the downstream-side standing portion is below the upper surface of the substrate in a vertical direction supported by the plurality of support members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Tomohiro MOTONO, Koji ANDO, Noritake SUMI, Kei SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20240156334
    Abstract: An endoscope bending operation mechanism comprises an up-down bending operation knob (a left-right bending operation knob), an up-down bending pulley (a left-right bending pulley) supported for rotation by a pulley case, the up-down bending pulley is configured to move by an operation force from the up-down bending operation knob, an up-down bending operation wire (a left-right bending operation wire) having a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end of which is connected to the up-down bending pulley (the left-right bending pulley) and the distal end of which is connected to a bending portion of an insertion section of an endoscope, a stopper member, a protruding portion, the stopper member and the protruding portion are movable relative to each other, an amount of relative rotation between the up-down bending pulley (the left-right bending pulley) and the pulley case is restricted by the protruding portion contacting the stopper member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.
    Inventors: Yuna NAKAMURA, Kei SEKIYA, Kyoko IWAKU, Giichi KANETA, Hisanobu SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20240153765
    Abstract: A method for producing a group III nitride semiconductor includes a loading step (S1), a decompression step (S2), a heating step (S3), an excitation gas supply step (S5), and an organometallic gas supply step (S6). In the loading step (Si), a substrate is loaded into a chamber. In the decompression step (S2), a suction part reduces a pressure inside the chamber. In the heating step (S3), a heater provided inside the chamber heats the substrate. In the excitation gas supply step (S5), a first gas that contains nitrogen without containing hydrogen is supplied to a plasma generator, and an excitation gas obtained by turning the first gas into plasma by the plasma generator is supplied to the substrate inside the chamber. In the organometallic gas supply step (S6), a second gas that is an organometallic gas that contains a group III element is supplied to the substrate inside the chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Masaki INABA, Kei SUZUKI, Masaru HORI, Osamu ODA, Kazuki KODAMA
  • Patent number: 11975778
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus disclosed has a controller configured to execute the processing of accepting a request for retrieving a target vehicle body unit that is laid at a specific place, selecting a chassis unit for retrieval from among chassis units in the state separated from any vehicle body unit, the chassis unit for retrieval being a chassis unit to be used to retrieve the target vehicle body unit, and sending a retrieval command to the chassis unit for retrieval, the retrieval command being a command to retrieve the target vehicle body unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuhisa Yoshikawa, Yuji Suzuki, Keita Yamazaki, Kei Matsumoto, Hiroyuki Ito, Takashi Ogawa, Yukiya Sugiyama, Masaru Ando, Yasushi Fujiwara, Azusa Nakagame, Erina Toyama
  • Publication number: 20240134596
    Abstract: The content output device includes an information acquisition unit, a content generation unit and an output unit. The information acquisition unit acquires driving state information which is information related to a current driving state of a vehicle. The content generation unit acquires one or more content elements corresponding to a trigger condition, from among a plurality of content elements combinable with each other, when the driving state information satisfies the trigger condition, and generates an output content using the acquired content elements. The output unit outputs the output content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Takashi IIZAWA, Keita KURAMOCHI, Atsuhiro YAMANAKA, Hideki NAGATA, Kazuaki TANAKA, Kyoichi TERAO, Takashi KAMIMURA, Daiki WAGURI, Yuya ISHIZAKI, Kei SUZUKI, Takayuki SHIMAZU
  • Patent number: 11958087
    Abstract: A substrate processing method is provided, which includes: a sulfuric acid immersing step of immersing a plurality of substrates in a sulfuric acid-containing liquid within a sulfuric acid vessel; a transporting step of taking out the substrates from the sulfuric acid vessel and transporting the substrates to an ozone gas treatment unit; and an ozone exposing step of exposing the substrates transported to the ozone gas treatment unit to an ozone-containing gas. The ozone gas treatment unit may include a gas treatment chamber which accommodates the substrates. The ozone exposing step may include the step of placing the substrates taken out of the sulfuric acid vessel in a treatment space within the gas treatment chamber to expose the substrates to the ozone-containing gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kei Suzuki, Masaki Inaba
  • Patent number: 11928618
    Abstract: The transport allocation planning system includes a transport allocation planning apparatus that creates a transport allocation plan and a user apparatus communicably connected to the transport allocation planning apparatus. The transport allocation planning apparatus transmits an inquiry related to a movement demand of the user to the user apparatus, receives an answer to the inquiry, estimates a movement demand of the user based on the answer, and creates a transport allocation plan based on the estimated movement demand. The user apparatus stores sensor information that is information indicating a current state or a past state of the user apparatus and a utility calculation model for calculating utility of the user during a movement, calculates the utility of the user by applying the sensor information to the utility calculation model, generates an answer to the inquiry based on the calculated utility, and transmits the generated answer to the transport allocation planning apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Kojin Yano, Satoru Hori, Kei Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20240075665
    Abstract: A molded resin product includes a plurality of protrusions formed in a predetermined region. A histogram indicating a height distribution of the plurality of protrusions has two peaks having a boundary height as a boundary therebetween. In a case where protrusions having height equal to or smaller than the height Hx are first protrusions and protrusions having height larger than the boundary height are second protrusions among the plurality of protrusions, an arithmetic mean curvature of the first protrusions is smaller than an arithmetic mean curvature of the second protrusions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Nagoya, Kei Oikawa, Makoto Kojima, Takahiro Suzuki, Mao Mukaida
  • Patent number: 11922087
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to control a display of notification related to a notification target present outside a field of view of a user depending on a relationship between attribute information of the notification target and attribute information of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Ami Kanzaki, Kodai Suzuki, Kei Arakawa
  • Patent number: 11919049
    Abstract: A substrate processing method for removing an organic film on a substrate includes a) carrying out introduction of ozone-containing gas into a substrate processing chamber to fill at least a space above the substrate in the substrate processing chamber with ozone-containing gas, b) starting spraying through the space a heated chemical liquid containing sulfuric acid onto the substrate after the a), c) continuing the spraying started in the b), and d) stopping the spraying continued in the c).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Linh da Ho, Masaki Inaba, Kei Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20240071248
    Abstract: A computer-readable recording medium stores therein a program causing a computer to execute a process including: obtaining information related to a learning target and learning subjects from a user; calculating, based on the obtained learning target and learning subjects, a learning volume including a first learning time to complete learning the subjects within a total period and generating, based on the learning volume, a long-term learning plan including the first learning time for courses in each of the subjects; generating, for each course, a short-term plan in which, based on the generated long-term plan, a second learning time predicted for each course, for a period shorter than that of the long-term plan is calculated; presenting, to the user, the courses to learn daily; and calculating, in each predetermined period, a difference of the second learning time and an actual learning time, calculating, according to a learning status of the user, a third learning time necessary to complete the learning with
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: JustSystems Corporation
    Inventors: Kei SUZUKI, Kentaro MATSUI, Masahiro HATTORI
  • Publication number: 20230206370
    Abstract: A community evaluation system includes: effect model construction units and that construct, based on activity information data, history data, and communication history data, an effect model indicating a process in which a specific activity of a first community is reflected in communication in a network community and the communication in the network community is reflected in an activity of a second community; and an effect model evaluation unit that calculates an evaluation value of the process in the effect model, based on a size and a delay of a connection between the specific activity of the first community and the communication in the network community, and a size and a delay of a connection between the communication in the network community and the activity of the second community.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Kojin YANO, Kei SUZUKI, Satoru HORI, Tomoichi EBATA
  • Publication number: 20230199252
    Abstract: A viewer reaction acquisition unit acquires reactions of viewers of a movie. A reaction aggregating unit aggregates levels of the reactions of the viewers for each player or team supported by viewers. A display mode changing unit changes a display mode in accordance with the levels of the reactions for each player or team. A movie delivery unit delivers a movie for which the display mode is changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Raimu SHIDA, Meisei YASUDA, Satoaki HASHIGUCHI, Kei SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20230199289
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes a housing, a first circuit board mounted with an image sensor, a second circuit board mounted with an electric element and is placed opposite to the first circuit board, a heat radiating sheet that contacts the image sensor or the first circuit board and the housing, and a flexible member placed between and contacting the heat radiating sheet and the second circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventor: Kei SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11643188
    Abstract: An aircraft includes a plurality of control targets, avionics devices and a control switch unit. The control targets each includes a power line communication unit configured to perform communication via a power line. The avionics devices are respectively connected with the control targets via exclusive-use signal lines. The avionics devices are configured to control the control targets via the signal lines. The avionics devices each includes a PLC unit configured to perform communication via the power line. The control switch unit is configured to, when an abnormality occurs in any of the avionics devices, cause another one of the avionics devices to control the control target which has been controlled by the any of the avionics devices, via the power line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kei Suzuki, Iwao Murata, Yuichi Nagai
  • Publication number: 20230104222
    Abstract: A mass flow controller includes a display unit; an operation unit; a basic functional section that realizes a basic function as the mass flow controller; a display control unit that causes the display unit to display a screen in an orientation corresponding to an instruction on an orientation from an operator; a layout-orientation setting unit that sets the vertical direction of the function layout of the operation unit to match the vertical direction of display by the display unit; and an orientation-instruction acquiring unit that acquires an instruction to specify an orientation of display by the display unit or an orientation of the function layout of the operation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: AZBIL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wataru HASEBE, Kei SUZUKI, Shinsuke MATSUNAGA
  • Publication number: 20230098810
    Abstract: A substrate processing method is provided, which includes: a sulfuric acid immersing step of immersing a plurality of substrates in a sulfuric acid-containing liquid within a sulfuric acid vessel; a transporting step of taking out the substrates from the sulfuric acid vessel and transporting the substrates to an ozone gas treatment unit; and an ozone exposing step of exposing the substrates transported to the ozone gas treatment unit to an ozone-containing gas. The ozone gas treatment unit may include a gas treatment chamber which accommodates the substrates. The ozone exposing step may include the step of placing the substrates taken out of the sulfuric acid vessel in a treatment space within the gas treatment chamber to expose the substrates to the ozone-containing gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Kei SUZUKI, Masaki INABA
  • Publication number: 20230064063
    Abstract: Since the solder 106 temporarily remaining in the first region 301 is in a state of being high in curvature, it is in point contact with the semiconductor element 105 at the vertex of the solder 106. Thereafter, the solder 106 is gradually wetted and spread from the center part to the peripheral part and from the first region 301 to the second region 302 while the semiconductor element 105 is pressed against the solder 106. At this time, since the solder 106 wets and spreads while discharging air, generation of voids can be suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Kei SUZUKI, Shun KAWANO